Admin l Thursday, June 14, 2018
MOSCOW, Russia – Not less than 400 Russian citizens are currently held in detention facilities in Ukraine, Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova has said.
Earlier Moskalkova and Ukraine’s ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova had settled for two lists of Ukrainian and Russian detainees they would visit. Each list includes 34 persons.
Moskalkova, according to RAPSI is espected to visit journalist Kirill Vyshinsky, former military servicemen Maksim Odintsov and Alexander Baranov, and Yelena Odnovol, an activist of the Volunteers of Victory movement. All of them have been charged by Ukrainian authorities with treason.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had reached an agreement for human rights commissioners to visit to detained compatriots during a telephone conversation on June 9.
